Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 126
"Brother Wang, do you think he is the supervisory censor sent by the imperial court?" Zuo Hongji said with a shiver suddenly.

Wang Buquan shook his head solemnly, and said in a low voice: "It should be impossible. If there is a supervisory censor on tour, I should receive the news. In short, we need to find out his details before making any plans."

Zuo Hongji nodded, and hurried up a few steps, leading the way for Li Canghai and others.

In the main hall, the guests and hosts were seated. Li Canghai sat at the first desk on the lower right, Di Qing and Fen'er sat beside him, and Chang Feng stood aside with a gloomy expression.

When Fen'er saw the delicacies on the table, she was not polite, took off her veil, grabbed them and started eating.

Di Qing was also a little hungry, and Li Canghai gave all the snacks brought from Luoyang to the refugees, and seeing the table full of delicacies at this time, she would not be polite.

Li Canghai looked at the two women, with a gentle smile in his eyes, he picked up a roasted golden animal leg, and gnawed on it.

Zuo Hongji and Wang Buquan looked at each other in blank dismay, thinking, how could these people be like hungry ghosts reincarnating their lives.

It wasn't until they were full that Zuo Hongji grinned and said, "Brother, I don't know why you came here this time?"

Li Canghai picked up the silk on the table and wiped the oil stains from the corners of his mouth, and said indifferently: "No one else, just doing business."

"But what kind of business does Xiongtai do?" Zuo Hongji leaned forward and asked while rubbing his chin.

"A profitable business." Li Canghai smiled slightly.

Zuo Hongji rolled his eyes, isn't this nonsense, business is not for making money, who the hell would do it?

"Brother Zuo means to ask what kind of business your Excellency is here for?" Seeing that Zuo Hongji was upset, Wang Buquan gave him a wink, telling him to calm down, and said cheerfully.

Li Canghai picked up the wine glass, turned it in his hand, and said indifferently: "I heard that Zhengyang County was flooded, and many refugees fled here. I wonder if there is such a thing?"

Wang Buquan frowned suddenly, he stared at Li Canghai, and said: "Brother, there is something in what you said, just say it straight, why bother to beat around the bush?"

"Okay, then I'll tell you the truth." Li Canghai drank the wine in his glass and said, "Everyone knows that Zhengyang County is now in the hands of the county captain, but the relief funds are in the hands of the Zuo University." In the hands of good people, so I want to make a deal with you."

"Where did you hear the rumor, brother, that the relief money was allocated by the imperial court, how could it be in my hands?" Zuo Hongji's eyes twitched violently, and he smiled.

A flash of light flashed in Wang Buquan's eyes, and he said in shock: "Brother, you can't talk nonsense, the real person in charge of Zhengyang County is the county magistrate, and I'm just a small county lieutenant. , if this spreads out, Wang will not be able to afford it and walk away."

Li Canghai laughed, and said, "Don't worry, both of you, listen to me first, and then make a decision." He tapped his finger on the table, and said, "I have three hundred dans of grain, and I don't need to take any money. And you two. But I have a condition, you must share [-]% of the money you make when helping the victims."

Hearing this, Zuo Hongji's eyes lit up. He didn't take any money for the three hundred dan grains, but only took [-]% of the money he earned from the victims. This deal is a bargain!
Wang Buquan narrowed his eyes, stared at Li Canghai, and said with a sneer, "Three hundred dans of food were given to us without taking a cent, so how much did you earn?"

"I have done a survey before I came here. The flood is very serious, and dozens of villages have been affected. There are nearly a hundred refugees in Zhengyang City, and there are still a steady stream of refugees coming. And all the relief food in the yamen They were all sold to Zuo Dashan by the county captain, and you sell food to refugees at a price ten times higher, and I take [-]% of it, which is quite a lot." Li Canghai said lightly.

Wang Buquan's eyes turned cold, and he shouted: "Don't talk nonsense, it's a serious crime to sell relief food privately, I'm an official ordered by the court, how can I do such a thing?"

Chang Feng glanced at him disdainfully, and let out a snorting cold snort.

"Let's be smart people don't talk dark words. I am here for business. The purpose of a businessman is to make money. As long as there is money to be made, he will not ask about anything else. Why should you two cover it up?" Li Canghai picked up a bamboo chopstick and picked it up. Said with hair.

Wang Buquan glanced at Chang Feng, then at Li Canghai, knowing that Chang Feng might have said all of this, but he still couldn't believe Li Canghai's words, and said coldly, "If you really came here to make money, , How could you give me three hundred dans of grain for nothing? Even if you took [-]% of the money you earned from disaster relief, it would not be worth the price of three hundred dans of grain. Do you think we will trust you?"

Li Canghai, on the other hand, looked indifferent, and said in a calm manner: "Floods and natural disasters cannot be resisted by manpower. I know the course of the Yellow River. After breaking the embankment this time, there is a possibility that it will burst again in the next few years. That is to say, These places will be affected by disasters in the future, and they will also flee here. As long as they are fleeing, they need food, and I can hand over the food to you for sale again. When doing business, you can’t be short-sighted, and you have to think about it in the long run.”

Zuo Hongji was a businessman, and he understood Li Canghai's words in his heart. He wanted to cooperate with them for a long time, and that's why he was so cheap to them.

"Brother Wang, this deal is a good deal." Zuo Hongji was very optimistic about this deal from the perspective of a businessman.

Wang Buquan stared at Li Canghai intently, and said in a deep voice, "How can we trust you?"

"This is a deposit of 100 taels. After signing the contract, three hundred dans of grain will be available tomorrow." Li Canghai took out two horseshoe-shaped gold ingots and a piece of paper from his cloth bag, and said calmly.

Zuo Hongji walked over, picked up the gold ingot and weighed it a few times, then picked up the paper to look at it, and said in surprise, "You even wrote the contract?"

"Be prepared, save time." Li Canghai poured a glass of wine and said with a slight smile.

Zuo Hongji put away the gold ingot, and handed the contract to Wang Buquan for review.

Wang Buquan looked at the contract and felt a little hesitant in his heart. He was always cautious and never did anything he was not sure of. Before he found out the details of the other party, he definitely would not trust the other party easily.

At this moment, a servant girl ran over anxiously and shouted: "Master, it's not good, Ma'am, something happened to her!"

"What's wrong with Ma'am?" Zuo Hongji hurriedly jumped up from his chair and asked.

The servant girl panted and said: "Husband, madam, she was knocked out!"

"Ma'am!" Zuo Hongji yelled, and hurriedly ran to the wing room.

"Brother, I'm sorry, Brother Zuo's family has an accident, let's talk about the business tomorrow." Wang Buquan was already suspicious of him, so he just took this opportunity to send him away, waiting for someone to find out his identity Details, then make a decision.

(End of this chapter)